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Clark County prosecutors have filed charges against a Visalia man and his sister following a hatchet attack that left the woman’s husband dead and his head nearly severed from his body, according to Las Vegas police.

Twenty-two-year-old Hector Gutierrez, of Visalia, and his sister, 33-year-old Maria Gutierrez, of Idaho, are facing two counts of conspiracy to commit murder, and murder with use of a deadly weapon.

The siblings either killed, or aided in the slaying, of Enrique Hernandez, 43, according to the criminal complaint filed by prosecutors. The crime was reported Monday.

Maria Gutierrez called police Monday morning to report her husband was killed by an unknown black man with a hatchet while they were pulled off to the side of the road and Hernandez was checking the engine of their vehicle, according to the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department.

The couple was in Las Vegas for a family Quinceañera, police said, and Hector Gutierrez came from California for the event.

Detectives learned hours later that Hector Gutierrez was transported to a Nevada hospital and he reported he’d been robbed and stabbed in his abdomen.

Detectives met with the Visalia man at the hospital and conducted an interview with him, police said, and he eventually agreed to tell the truth and admitted he was involved in the death of Hernandez.

Hector Gutierrez told investigators that Hernandez learned Maria Gutierrez was having an affair and Hernandez threatened to take their four children away, according to police.

Maria Gutierrez began constructing a plan to kill her husband and enlisted her brother’s help, police said.

The siblings and Hernandez were leaving dinner when the vehicle they were traveling in began to have engine trouble, according to police, and Hernandez popped the hood and began to check the engine.

Hector Gutierrez said he hit Hernandez five or six times with the hatchet, according to police, and he got stabbed by the victim with a knife in the torso during a struggle.